A federal immigration judge has ordered the deportation of Alix Tichelman back to her native country of Canada, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman James Schwab told KSBW Friday.

Tichelman made headlines in 2014 as the "harbor hooker" and "call girl killer" after she was accused of causing a millionaire Google executive's death while they were having sex and using heroin on a yacht in the Santa Cruz harbor.

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She was released from a Santa Cruz jail last week because she completed serving her sentence, only to be taken away by Department of Homeland Security ICE agents.

ICE had requested that Santa Cruz County Sheriff's deputies place Tichelman on an immigration hold, but they refused, because doing so went against Sheriff's Office policies. ICE agents were still able to find Tichelman, 30, as soon as she was freed and took her into federal custody.

Schwab released the following statement to KSBW Friday: "Ms. Tichelman came into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody after serving time for multiple criminal convictions, including involuntary manslaughter and a felony drug charge. At that point, the agency placed her in removal proceedings. On April 6, an immigration judge held that Ms. Tichelman’s criminal convictions were grounds for removal and ordered her removed from the United States. Ms. Tichelman will remain in ICE custody pending final arrangements for her removal."

Tichelman pleaded guilty in May of 2015 to felony involuntary manslaughter and administering drugs, and she served nearly three years in the Santa Cruz County Jail.

At the time of her arrest, Tichelman had been living with her wealthy parents in Northern California. Tichelman's father is the CEO of a California technology company. She spent most of her childhood growing up in Georgia.

According to her Facebook profile, Tichelman went to high school in Atlanta, Georgia, majored in journalism at Georgia State University, and worked as a dancer, makeup artist, and model.

Her criminal convictions are about to change her life dramatically, even when she's walking free, as she is forced out of the country where she spent the vast majority of her life.

"Anyone with a felony is put in a very special category, and there's virtually no way of preventing their deportation," Santa Cruz County Immigration Project director Doug Keegan said. "Her ability to somehow defend against that in deportation (hearings) is very, very slim."

Tichelman holds a U.S. green card. Bail documents erroneously state that she is a duel citizen of Canada and the U.S.

Schwab said federal authorities would never detain or consider deporting anyone who is an American citizen.

Santa Cruz police said Tichelman was responsible for the death of a millionaire Google executive, Forrest Timothy Hayes.

The 51-year-old married father of five lived on the westside of Santa Cruz before he died from a heroin overdose on his yacht in the Santa Cruz harbor on Nov. 23, 2013.

Police said Hayes hired Tichelman several times for drug-fueled sex after they met on the website SeekingArrangement.com. Surveillance video from the yacht showed Hayes extending his arm as Tichelman injected him. Police said it was obvious he was dying as he collapsed to the floor, but Tichelman never called 911.

She pleaded guilty to two felonies before the case went to trial, and a judge sentenced her to serve six years in jail.

Her ex-boyfriend, 53-year-old monkey trainer Dean Riopelle, died from a heroin overdose in Georgia two months before Hayes' death. Riopelle's death was ruled as accidental.